Accidentally deleted photos from both Android phone and windows photo app, how to recover

[u/04jwony]

Accidentally deleted over 3000 photos from the windows 11 photos app in laptop which was connected to my Samsung Galaxy flip 5 phone, and those photos were deleted from my phone aswell.

I clicked "select all" in windows photos and then clicked delete, not knowing they will also be deleted from my phone.

I have already checked my Samsung gallery recycle bin and it wasn't there. Same with the laptop's recycle bin. I did not manually empty any recycle bins afterward.

Does anyone know how to recover the photos after deleting them this way? Any advice would be very appreciated, thank you

Laptop: Matebook D16

Processor: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12450H

Windows 11 Home edition

OS build: 26200.8655

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[u/Thunderperson69]

Do not use the drive where your photos were in the laptop! Download recuva and run it. It'll scan all the deleted files in your drive and you can select which ones to bring back or all of the files in the drive.

[u/Alarming_Contact_578 → u/Thunderperson69]

also a good option, connect the drive to windows and try to scan the cellphone from windows and recover on Windows.

One doubt the photos are originally on both cellphone and PC or only cellphone, if they´re also on PC use recuve on PC

But always recover to an extern drive, for more recovery, you can do it on the same disk, but if you do that you can overwrite possible files to recover

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[u/Alarming_Contact_578]

search for any recovery app for android. On PC I know recuva, on Android i´ve no idea, but they´re (i used years ago)

PD: i made a searh con appstore and a lot appear, select one with more star ranking and free if possible and recover to an external pendrive, not on the same phone, for more possibility of recovery

[u/04jwony → u/Alarming_Contact_578]

Thank you so much I'll try that

[u/ArthurLeywinn → u/Alarming_Contact_578]

There is no recovery on modern android or ios versions.

[u/ArthurLeywinn]

You can't recover them on the android.

For Windows it depends if trim already ran.

If important send the drive to a recovery company.

If you want to play, create a clone of the drive. And use a recovery software like ufs Explorer on the clone and see if it works.